Not quite replication, but recrystallization of dilithium, which decrystallized with use during TOS and had to be replaced, until Kirk's crew solved the problem in TVH. In those days, it seems Starfleet was always running short on dilithium and desperate for new sources. In TNG, they can't replicate it limitlessly,…

Holodecks full of unlimited sex, opiates and classical music. And Jake only mentions the Federation News Service, so it's unclear if there's a varied and robust free press to inform the public, or just twenty million ranting bloggers.

As Breaking Bad expressly demonstrated, there's no need for toilets once you've invented the transporter.

That was due to the variable-pitch nacelle design, in which the engines were always supposed to change position before going to warp to avoid this problem. All future starship designs were made eco-friendly with fixed nacelles, so that storyline became essentially ignorable.

Most of those resources would be of no use to the average citizen, and are probably allocated by a government body. Dilithium seems to only be used for power generation and high-energy experiments and would fall into this category. Latinum's only use seems to be as a precious metal, which a Fed would never need day to…

The conceit is that in the Federation, no one needs your money, so you'd have to be able to provide them some other incentive to perform sex acts that they wouldn't do voluntarily anyway. Or just hire humans who live outside the Federation that do have to make a living. In DS9, Fed civilians don't use GPL internally,…

Well, at that time the Dominion was only sending through their murderers and their drug addicts, a few of whom turned out to be good people, sure, but basically seeking to impose their One Galaxy government on our quadrant.

Those instances aren't necessarily incompatible. From the day the movie premiered, I always assumed Kirk was talking about cash: first that Earth was still using it, and why he couldn't pay for dinner on their date. In large part because of, as you said, all the references to pay and credits in TOS. Kirk may still be…

Said planets are also all about as close to each other as the Earth is to its Moon, even when half a galaxy apart.

It's not really Egypt, but more of a fantastical earlier age where "Egypt" was the entirety of the world. It is pretty and colorful, though, especially since all the violence results in shiny gold blood spraying everywhere.

Your plan is sheer elegance in its simplicity.

Now you're making me wish she was second or third-billed on Fuller's new Star Trek series.

Aww… makes their Star Wars: Rebels work together even more adorable.

*Ignores the main plotline to spend 20 hours in the forest gathering cooking ingredients and discovering new recipes.*

Hey! No oo-mox in here, buddy.

In honor of Old Vulcan, everyone will exclusively refer to New Vulcan simply as "Vulcan" whenever it is mentioned throughout the entire series.

And if we're starting with "Inner Light," just go directly to DS9's "The Visitor."

Nah, I'm sure Starfleet Academy still had terrible student theater in her day.

That only made me more pissed off that the episode wasn't titled "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy." It all fit, dammit!

[Heroically holds pose for two minutes it takes bottle of syrup to drain]